johnson,ssor, oliver assisted her. still, who was sending many of the people to sydney howard gay and louis napoleon, and my co-author, tom calarco was able to look at gay's recordd and and compare them and annotate sometimestha there is difference in names and location. james johnson is one of the significant faces in the book. johnson is one of the most significant faces in the book. they were coming through philadelphia, and abolitionist talked with her and she had always wanted to be free, so she took it as an opportunity to declare that she was going to be a free woman. wheeler did not like that so he went to court, lost the case and johnson settled in boston. this is an image from still's book about thomas jones, one of my favorite stories in the book. because he escaped at christmas time. christmas was a good time for people to escape, even though it was cold weather, people were given a little bit of time off. unhappy he was not that with his condition as an enslaved person until his wife and children were sold